I have my desk facing into the corner of the room, so I have a view of two walls with a tithe map of the parish on one and a collage of a walking holiday in Spain on the other.

If I swivel my chair, I see part of the neighbouring barn, cows in the adjacent field with a glimpse of houses and the tower of the church behind. Higher up in the distance is the tree-lined hill above the town. Right of this are the red tiled roofs of the local farms, beyond which the towers of the Severn Bridge just show above Cowhill church.

If I poke my head out of the window and look right (or is that outside the rules) I can see the hills of the Forest of Dean, about 10 miles away. The whole view is spattered with the green of trees, which have hardly started to turn colour yet.

As you say, Michael - sublime.

Phil